Cranberry sauce - original addition to meat

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• Most delicious recipes cranberry sauce
• Sample dishes sweet and sour sauce: tender meatballs

The correct dressing will enrich the taste of meat dishes. Of course, in the store you can buy ketchup or mayonnaise, but if you want to surprise your guests with an original taste of meat or poultry, mix cranberry sauce. This sweet-sour dressing is very popular in America and Britain: Thanksgiving cranberry sauce necessarily fed to turkey. It can apply to other fried bird. With such fatty meats like lamb and pork, sauce also goes well. Vegetarians like to add it to pasta, vegetables, baked goods.

Cranberry sauce is able to give the dish a unique, colorful and festive taste.

Make cranberry sauce is not difficult, the time of its preparation takes less than 15 minutes. By increasing the cooking time, it is possible to achieve density. Cook the berries in an enamel pot only to the metal under the influence of acid does not produce harmful substances. Cranberry is better to use fresh, but if it does not get it, will fit frozen. Take only the ripe berries, dark red color, as bitter unripe cranberries. To cranberry sauce to the meat had the desired shade of taste, add the lemon juice, ginger, pepper, cloves or other spices.   The finished dressing can be stored, but no more than 2 weeks. For this pour it into a glass jar and put in the refrigerator.

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Most delicious recipes cranberry sauce

• Cranberry sauce in the American

This dressing is perfect for the turkey or other poultry.

In a saucepan with a thick bottom, place 150 g of cranberry and 2 tbsp. spoons of sugar. Cook over medium heat until the berries will not burst. Brush Wash lemon and orange, dry, grind with the help of a grater zest. From half an orange squeeze the juice, add a few drops of lemon juice. To add cranberries zest, a pinch of cinnamon young, 3 clove bud, a little ground nutmeg and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour citrus juice and cook another 5 minutes. Once the sauce has cooled, it is ready.

If you want to refill a thick, add cold citrus juice a little starch, and then pour it into the cranberries. In addition starch has another positive side: the sauce will need to cook a little, just to a simmer, allowing the berries retain more vitamins.

• Cranberry sauce is versatile

To any meat, be it lamb, pork or beef, turned into a festive meal, serve this sauce to it.

0, 5, and 2 kg of cranberries chopped onions to a boil in a small amount of water. Then cook the berries with a bow in a well covered pot for 10 minutes. Crush the mass in a blender, add 150 grams of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cinnamon, a little salt, black pepper, 300 grams of sugar, half a teaspoon celery seed and garlic powder. Simmer until smooth. Refrigerate and serve any meat.

• English cranberry sauce

This dressing cranberry wonderful complement poultry dishes. It can also be fed to a variety of desserts.

150 g of cranberries, place in a saucepan, add water and bring to a boil. Peel and chop the ginger on a fine grater, add the cranberries. When the amount of liquid in the skillet to double by placing the zest and juice of a lemon, cinnamon and simmer for another 5 minutes. At the end of cooking, add the honey. Try dressing: it should have a rich aroma and flavor with a touch of light bitterness. If necessary, you can add honey or lemon juice. Give the sauce Cook for another 3 minutes.

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Sample dishes sweet and sour sauce: tender meatballs

Cheese and cranberries give the original an unforgettable taste. To prepare soft cheese and meatballs with sauce of cranberries, the following products: 250 g of any of minced meat, 250 grams of cheese, preferably soft butter, 2 eggs, a glass of cranberry, 0, 5 cups of grape juice, sugar, vegetable oil, sesame seeds, garlic, parsley, bread crumbs.

If it works, grate cheese. If it is very soft, mash with a fork. Mix the minced meat with eggs and cheese. Add sesame seeds, herbs and garlic to your taste. If you do not want the meatballs came out sharp, you can do without garlic. From cheese-meat mixture, let us make small balls and roll them in the breadcrumbs. In a deep saucepan, heat the oil. Lower balls in a pot, they should fried in a large amount of oil. In order not to burn yourself, place and reach for balls with a slotted spoon.

While fried meatballs, cook cranberry dressing. Mix cranberries, grape juice and sugar and cook until mixture thickens, stirring often forget. For this filling can use mashed cranberries with sugar. Pass the resulting mass through a blender. When the cheese and meatballs have cooled, place them on a flat plate in one layer and fill the prepared sweet and sour sauce. The dish is ready!